Once I had a lovely false awakening where the rain was hammering on the roof, I went outside and there were umbrellas hanging in the trees.... it was so surreal and prompted me to become lucid. When I woke up for real maybe 10 minutes later the rain was still going hard in reality. That was cool!

You should try incubating a dream sign before you go to sleep. Before bed, write down: "tonight I am going to dream of horses, hippos, hats and ham!" It's a funny way to ingrain the signs into your subconscious by having them all start with the same letter. Then in the morning, you may recall more dreams signs either relating directly to your list - or just signs beginning with the letter H. I have done this numerous times and the number of incubated dream signs can be astonishing.